I'm putting my money on:
A) He will point out how the Department of Homeland Security was completely unprepared to deal with the disaster, but instead of dismantling the program, use that fact as justification for pouring billions more into the agency and give it broader power.
B) Hire Haliburton to provide the...wait...I don't know if I can technically win the pool on this one, since they'd hired them before I'd finished typing the sentence.
C) Advise the use of local churches as temporary school houses for children displaced from their homes. Enforce a no math, no science, no biology, or other Godless manmade hooey taught in a "House of God" clause; thus ensuring an already impoverished, homeless underclass of African Americans stay that way in perpetuity.
D) Appoint John Roberts as chief justice of the Supreme Court...aw, crap. Beat me to the punch again. Boy, that Bush is really freaking quick to move when it's important to him, eh?
E) Scotty McClellen and crew will not answer any of the criticism of the Administration's handling of the disaster and choose instead to focus attention on his whimsical "The President went on vacation, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" t-shirt. Bush, when asked to speak on the topic, will keep saying "hard work" over and over with the by-wrote earnestness of of a toddler's "thank you"--because hey, it doesn't matter if you know what it means, as long as it keeps those presents coming.
Posted by Antigeist at September 5, 2005 01:21 PMlike, a zillion to one you're wrong? who's going to take those kinds of odds?
those t-shirts would actually be great.
Posted by: anne at September 5, 2005 03:15 PMyou forgot the "this is going to work out very well for the those underprivileged people" spin, which i hadn't thought of either, and for which bets are now closed.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/52995.htm
i can't decide whether to reach for tissues or a barf bag. or both. or a gun.
Posted by: anne at September 6, 2005 07:47 AMBarbara's quote--"So many of the people here . . . were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them"--says it all about that family and their values, doesn't it?
I keep screaming at the tv...congratulations 50 percenters! Here's the good old boy, man of the people you asked for! Oh he's not some Ivory Tower intellectual like that Kerry, only looking out for the rich bastards, no siree! He's one of us! Straight talkin', brush clearin', rootin', tootin' everyman...
And such.
Posted by: antigeist at September 6, 2005 08:33 AMI dona know
Posted by: jojo at September 8, 2005 01:35 PM